You can now stop Claude Code compacting a long conversation while you sit idle by setting idleCompaction to false. The CLAUDE_CODE_IDLE_COMPACT_MIN_TOKENS variable sets how large a conversation must be before idle compaction starts. A new --proactivity flag picks how much Claude does on its own when it starts. CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_PROACTIVITY turns that choice off. Running claude remote-control with --allow-unattended-tool-calls lets cloud sessions use the current folder for one run. Remote sessions now read the SDK address from CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE_SDK_URL when --sdk-url is not given.
This release has 7 entries in the build that are not switched on yet. One would let you attach more PDFs as a reference when their page count is known. Another would let an MCP server that needs you to sign in keep its saved tools. Claude Code could also tell the model that you pay per token and what a Bash call costs. Live-update connections could learn to spot a proxy answering in place of the real server. Each of these waits on a switch that is off by default.
Among this release's fixes, a cancel sent from outside the terminal no longer throws away every prompt you had queued. Plugin names that version 2.1.287 changed now match the installed plugins again. Synced skills now keep the text that sits above their main body. A plugin's hook error handler now still runs if the worker running those hooks is replaced mid-event. Stopping a remotely served background command now returns without waiting for it to end.